have any of you seen all of these bios hacks for activating vista? i was
wondering  why these people dont get sent to jail (the ones who made them).
or is it legal to make just not to use?

if i have another IE instance and for other reason y open other IE, when i
exit from this one, yi can only choose to cance or close all tabs,, why y
can't close the 1st  without closing the 2nd ?
i think that IE must ask which of the open tabs can be closed

I do approve of all the additional security built into Vista, so my question
is 'How great is the need for Anti Virus software?' at the moment I am
getting a bad mark under 'Malware protection' in the Windows Security
Centre.

My question has two parts, really. Is there a way for you to get alerts when
you have new mail in Windows mail without it being open? Is there a way to
minimize Windows Mail to the task bar so it's not hanging on your program
list?

I run Vista Business and when I go to 'Backup and Restore Center' and select
the 'Backup Computer' button, the 'On a hard disk' radio button is disabled.
How can I enable it?
Thanks

I had Roxio DLA installed on Windows XP, which isn't compatible with Windows
Vista. Well, now I get an error message at every boot (annoying) saying its
not compatible. Uninstalling is fruitless since the check on Vista which
says its not compatible says the uninstaller (its ...

TITLE: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Setup
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The SQL Server System Configuration Checker cannot be executed due to WMI
configuration on the machine ALEX-PC Error:2147749896 (0x80041008).

I have a problem with my SIL 0680A PATA-card. When I connect an IDE
harddrive to the card, Vista wont boot up. When I disconnect the harddrive
everything works as normal. It's very annoying because I dont want to throw
away my old harddrives.

Could someone explain to me how the following occurs?
I installed a new hard drive today. The old hard drives score was 5.2 it is
now 5.6. My old Base score was 5.4 but now it has dropped to 4.7. I have done
nothing except put the new hard drive in yet my CPU AND my RAM score has

I have Xp on the original drive and now Vista on a new internal drive
How do I set my pc to give me the boot option, besides f12
And how can I get some of my personal settings on over..
Internet Explorer and Outlook express  my first priority..

every time i go into the computer and click on acer or data section of hard
drive com surrogate comes up stating it has stopped working   can some one
help

Is it just my imagination, or is WLS Beta much faster than Windows Vista?  I
just installed enterprise edition and installed all the goodies (incl Aero
Glass, Wireless, WMP and Windows Search) that make it like Windows Vista
(well almost, the Media Center is missing but I never ...

I am running vista 32 ultimate and have been updating fine with windows
update then one day it stops installing them also the windows defender wont
start up or update either so i think the problems are linked i have tried
with out firewall and anti virus running i have tried ...

I am used to the home pc keyboards and find it difficult to use to standard 1
line of numbers on the laptop.  There are shaded numbers on the keyboard in a
similar format to what I'm used to, however I can't seem to figure out how to
utilise this.  Can someone help me?

During or after conversion.
1. Some getting used to?
2. A snap?
3. A disaster?